822 CYPERACES. (Carex. 
23. C. dipsacea, Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. 
(1877) 28, t. 7, f. 8-14.—Densely tufted. Culms slender, smooth, 
erect, leafy, 1-2ft. high, scarcely elongating in fruit. Leaves 
numerous, longer than the culms, rather narrow, ;,—}in. broad, 
flat, keeled, striate; margins and keel sharply scabrid. Spikelets 
4-7, close together except the lowest, which is usually remote, 
dense-flowered, pale or dark-brown; terminal one male, slender, 
sometimes mixed with female flowers; remainder female, but 
often with a few male flowers below, short and broad, 4-1 in. long, 
sessile or the two lower shortly pedunculate; bracts long and leafy, 
far overtopping the inflorescence. Glumes rather shorter than the 
utricles, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, membranous, pale or dark chest- 
nut-brown, midrib vanishing at the apex or shortly excurrent; 
margins scarious, pale. Utricles densely packed, spreading when 
ripe, elliptic-ovoid, unequaliy biconvex or almost plano-convex, 
smooth, nerveless; margins sharply and distantly serrate above; 
beak short, 2-toothed. Styles 2. Nut obovoid-oblong, lenticular.— 
Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 432. 
NortuH AND SoutH Isnanps: From the Lower Waikato to Foveaux Strait, 
not uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
Very close to C. testacea, but usually recognised without difficulty by the 
densely packed utricles, spreading on all sides when ripe. 
24. C. testacea, Sol. ex Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 282.— 
Laxly tufted. Culms very slender, sometimes filiform, smooth or 
slightly scabrid above, 6-18 in. high, in some varieties elongating in 
fruit and becoming prostrate, occasionally reaching a length of 
4-5 ft. Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, ;4,—3in. broad, 
flat, usually keeled, striate; margins harsh and scabrid. Spikelets 
3-5, approximate, pale-brown; terminal one male, slender; re- 
mainder all female, sometimes with a few male flowers below, rarely 
above, short and broad, 4-1 in. long, +-1in. broad, sessile or the 
lowest shortly peduncled ; bracts long and leafy, far overtopping the 
inflorescence. Glumes broadly ovate, thinand membranous, deeply 
emarginate or bifid, with a long or short awn from the centre of the 
emargination, pale-brown streaked with chestnut, median portion 
more or less conspicuously 3-nerved. Utricles equalling the glumes 
or shorter than them, broadly ovate, plano-convex or nearly so, 
7-1l-nerved on the convex face, polished and shining, purplish at 
the apex, paler below, or whoily pale-brown ; margins more or less 
distinctly serrate above, rarely even; beak short, with 2 widely 
divergent teeth. Styles2. Nut obovoid-oblong, lenticular.—Hook. 
f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 314 (in part) ; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. 
(1884) 434. 
NortH anp Sours Isntanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant throughout. 
Sea-level to 3500 ft. October—January. 
